Michael Shermer & Brian Keating: Part 1: How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof (#150)

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Shermer and Keating discuss:

• cosmology and Intelligent Design,
• the fine-tuning of the universe,
• the multiverse and theism: many worlds or one God?
• How does the Intelligent Designer or God as a disembodied mind interact with the physical universe?
• If the origin of the universe and its fine-tuned nature points to an intelligence or mind behind it, why don’t most cosmologists, physicists, and astronomers accept that conclusion?
• What are laws of nature?
• Can you explain the origin of the universe by laws and rules of things in the universe?
• What came before the Big Bang?
• What caused the bang that gave rise to our universe?
• Why there is something rather than nothing?
• inflationary cosmology,
• What is gravity? What is quantum gravity?
• How did the Big Bang theory win out over the Steady State theory?
• the difference between Popperian falsification, Kuhnian paradigm, and consensus science,
• Is string theory physics, metaphysics, or mathematics?
• What shape is the universe? Open, closed, or flat?
• What is dark energy and dark matter?
• What is time?
• What is infinity?
• cyclic universes and the multiverse.

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